to his final Reger edition of Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, op. 27 (not because he advocated this aesthetic change, but rather for the sake of his good friend and colleague's musical contributions). In his musical biography of Straube, musicologist Christopher Anderson writes: "As the eleventh successor to J. S. Bach in the cantorate of St. Thomas School, Leipzig, he focused the choir's mission as curator of Bach's works and, in the unstable political climate of the interwar years, as international emissary for German art. His fraught exit from the cantorate in 1939 bore the scars of his Nazi affiliations and issued in a final decade of struggle and disillusionment as German society collapsed." Death Straube was buried in the Südfriedhof, Leipzig in 1950. His grave was thoroughly restored on behalf of the Paul-Benndorf-Gesellschaft in 2021. References Sources (also available in EPDF and EPUB format in April 2022) 1873 births 1950 deaths German classical organists German male organists German musicologists German choral conductors German male conductors (music) Bach conductors German performers of Christian music Thomaskantors Nazi Party members Male classical organists